Éxodo 21:30

30 Sin embargo, los familiares del muerto podrán aceptar un pago a modo de compensar por la pérdida de vida. El dueño del buey podrá salvar su vida pagando lo que se le exija.

Éxodo 21:30 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 21:30

If there be laid on him a sum of money
By the decree of the judges, as Aben Ezra, or which the sanhedrim of Israel have laid upon him; if his sentence of death is commuted for a fine, with the consent of the relations of the deceased, who in such a case are willing to show mercy, and take a fine instead of the person's death; supposing it was through carelessness and negligence, and not with any ill design that he did not keep up his ox from doing damage, after he had notice:

then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatever, is laid upon
him;
whatever mulct or fine he is amerced with by the court, instead of the sentence of death first pronounced. Of this ransom Maimonides ^F17 thus writes:

``the ransom is according as the judges consider what is the price (or value) of him that is slain; (i.e. according to his rank, whether a noble or common man, a free man or a servant) all is according to the estimation of him that is slain.--To whom do they give the ransom? to the heirs of the slain; and if a woman is killed, the ransom is given to the heirs of her father's (family), and not to her husband.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 Hilchot Niske Mammon, c. 11. sect. 1, 2.

Éxodo 21:30 In-Context

28 »Si un buey
mata a cornadas a un hombre o a una mujer, habrá que apedrear al buey y se prohíbe comer su carne. En ese caso, sin embargo, el dueño del buey no será responsable.

29 Pero supongamos que el buey tenía fama de cornear, y el dueño ya había sido advertido pero no lo mantenía bajo control; si el buey posteriormente mata a alguien, habrá que apedrearlo, y el dueño también tendrá que morir.

30 Sin embargo, los familiares del muerto podrán aceptar un pago a modo de compensar por la pérdida de vida. El dueño del buey podrá salvar su vida pagando lo que se le exija.

31 »La misma ordenanza se aplica si el buey cornea a un muchacho o a una muchacha.

32 Pero si el buey cornea a un esclavo, sea hombre o mujer, el dueño del animal pagará al dueño del esclavo treinta monedas de plata,
y el buey morirá apedreado.